...Maurizio Ascari Does Franco Moretti's notion of “distant reading” really provide a liberating and democratic approach to literature, as it promises? Far from opening new perspectives, distant reading may actually blunt our critical faculties, inviting us to inadvertently adopt biased views...

... and reality discussed in Michel Foucault's “archaeology of knowledge,” to classical Chinese novels as described by Goethe and Franco Moretti, and to J. S. Bach's polyphonic layout of the Goldberg Variations . Constructing sympathetic networks of music and literature, Do Not Say We Have Nothing facilitates...

... truly grasp the media situation — and hence the roles of narrative and data — of this period. Franco Moretti’s recent work on “distant reading” and related projects from the Stanford Literary Lab also exemplify an informatics approach that, for princi- pled reasons, does not see the Victorians...

... in a quantitative analysis, though, the words no longer invite the same sort of unpacking. We can analyze the set of them in any number of sta- tistical ways, but we are no longer interpreting as we were before. Franco Moretti (2005, 30) makes this point plainly: “Quantitative data are useful because...

... . Moretti Franco . 1987 . The Way of the World: The Bildungsroman in European Culture . London : Verso . Mtisi Joseph Nyakudye Munyaredzi Barnes Teresa . 2009 . “Social and Economic Developments during the UDI Period.” In Becoming Zimbabwe: A History from the Pre-Colonial Period...

... . “The Brooking of Desire: Dorothea and Deferment in Middlemarch.” Yearbook of English Studies 26 : 116 – 26 . Moretti Franco . 1988 . “The Moment of Truth.” In Signs Taken for Wonders: Essays in the Sociology of Literary Forms , translated by Fischer Susan Forgacs David Miller...

... of the “great unread” (Cohen 1999, 23). The gap between the vastness of the archive and the few we routinely reread prompts Franco Moretti (2013) to call for “distant reading,” the use of machines to process vast numbers of texts at speeds that humans simply cannot manage. Of course many literary...

... to create a total and complete por- trait of a society or, alternatively, that they set out to question and critique the ideological presuppositions of such an effort. For critics such as Mendelson, Tom LeClair, and Franco Moretti, encyclopedic narratives are something like mod- ern epics Moretti s...

... : Cambridge University Press . Moretti Franco . 2007 . The Way of the World: The Bildungsroman in European Culture . 2nd ed. New York : Verso . Raper Julius Rowan . 1995 . “Barren Ground and the Transition to Southern Modernism.” In Ellen Glasgow: New Perspectives , edited...

... the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception . New York : Public Affairs , 2008 . Monmonier Mark . How to Lie with Maps . Chicago : U of Chicago P , 1991 . Moretti Franco . Atlas of the European Novel, 1800-1900 . London : Verso , 1998 . Morton Timothy...

... . Durham : Duke UP , 1995 . Moon Krystyn R. Yellowface: Creating the Chinese in American Popular Music and Performance, 1850s-1920s . New Brunswick : Rutgers UP , 2005 . Moretti Franco . Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for a Literary History . London : Verso , 2005...

... . Ed. Davidson Cynthia C. . Cambridge : The MIT Press , 2001 . 180 - 8 . Moretti Franco . Atlas of the European Novel , 1800 - 1900 . New York : Verso , 1998 . —. The Way of the World: The Bildungsroman in European Culture. New edition . Trans. Sbragia Albert . New...

... and Lovers and Santayana's The Last Puritan. 166 GENRE Jeffers differentiates his study from earlier influential books on the Bildung- sroman, such as Jerome Buckley's Season of Youth (1974) and Franco Moretti's The Way of the World (1987). As he notes in the Prologue...

....” Genre 26 , no. 4 : 431 – 59 . Martini Fritz . 1991 . “Bildungsroman: Term and Theory.” In Reflection and Action: Essays on the Bildungsroman , edited by Hardin James , 1 – 25 . Columbia : University of South Carolina Press . Moretti Franco . 1987 . The Way...

... and an active proliferation, of singularities, of small actions, small groups, which are always as if in unison but diverse. For example, here, there was a very funny event with REINVENTING DRAMA WITH TONI NEGRI 169 Nanni Moretti, when the girotondi began10 — I do not have...

... and temporal tensions as well. Put simply, the narrative of Mr. Low’s slow, measured, and certain advance lacks narrativ- ity. Put more complexly, the bildungsroman, as Franco Moretti ([1987] 2000, 86 GENRE 6) has argued, focuses on youth, because...

... be the most Hegelian thing, let alone the most Lukácian thing, that the philosophic Eliot ever wrote.” 120 GENRE tic code” and what Franco Moretti (1988, 146) calls the “poetic” affordances of clues, which break apart the intimacy between signifier and signified...

... and the “biologi- zation” of class. Franco Moretti (1983, 87), discussing Frankenstein, notes that “inequality really does score itself into one’s skin, one’s eyes and one’s body.” This is another reversal of the weird, interrogating the new racisms, misogynies, and class violence that characterize the time...

...-operation and Development . Miyoshi Masao . 1993 . “A Borderless World? From Colonialism to Transnationalism and the Decline of the Nation-State.” Critical Inquiry 19 , no. 4 : 726 – 51 . Moretti Franco . 2000 . The Way of the World: The Bildungsroman in European Culture...

... aggregates would put work on genre’s local complexity in conversation with work on its global pattern. In the latter camp I have in mind approaches like “distant reading” (Moretti 2013) and “macroanalysis” (Jockers 2013), digital methods that map, detect, and visualize generic evolution...